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Xenlism Minimalism

Pictured: My desktop with Xenlism Minimalism GTK and Shell theme.

Minimalism has a transparent panel, and it looks very good. However, my main issue with it is that it is very bright and it styles some applications to a unreadable font. This is easily fixed with some css magic, however.

Shell theme

If you have the user themes extension, you can select Xenlism Minimalism as your Shell theme in Tweak Tool > Themes.

Super Flat

Super Flat is an update of the theme Super Flat Remix, fixing lots of issues with text coloring and such. Super Flat adds lots of great effects to your desktop, such as the shadows on my left dash panel (first screenshot). It comes with only a shell theme, and no GTK theme, so try this shell theme out with Arc, it looks very good.

Shell theme

If you have the user themes extension, you can select Super Flat as your Shell theme in Tweak Tool > Themes.

How to Install Super Flat

Super Flat will work with any machine with GTK and a theme folder. Just download the zip and unzip it to your theme folder. (This is usually /usr/share/themes/). To make this theme work, you have to use the directory from the inside the download, it will not work with the main folder.

Uranus

Pictured: My desktop with Uranus GTK and Shell theme.

Uranus is a nice darker theme, and it has rather nice icons. What ruins it for me is the bad font choices and the cramped text in applications. (See my first screenshot.) However it still is a nice theme, and I rather like the ui.

Shell theme

If you have the user themes extension, you can select Uranus as your Shell theme in Tweak Tool > Themes.

How to Install Uranus

Uranus will work with any machine with GTK and a theme folder. Just download the tar and unzip it to your theme folder. (This is usually /usr/share/themes/)

Yosemite Shell

Pictured: My desktop with Yosemite Shell GTK and Shell theme.

Yosemite Shell is a nice theme for people used to Apple design: blurred top panel, transparent elements, and a different dock. I don't use Yosemite Shell mainly because I want my Linux to look like Linux, not like mac, but its up to you how your computer should look and Yosemite Shell is a good choice.

Shell theme

If you have the user themes extension, you can select Yosemite Shell as your Shell theme in Tweak Tool > Themes.

How to Install Yosemite Shell

Yosemite Shell will work with any machine with GTK and a theme folder. Just download the zip and unzip it to your theme folder. (This is usually /usr/share/themes/). You have two options with Yosemite Shell; transparent panel or blurred panel. They both look pretty similar, transparent panel's panel adjusts its color to your background.

transparent panel

blurred panel

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Do you like these desktop themes? Do you hate them? Drop a line in the comments below with your favorite desktop theme, and I'll be sure to take a look.